Use of real-time PCR on blood samples for diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1504-1512

  Kami, Masahiro ^a,b   Fukui, Takafumi ^d   Ogawa, Seishi ^a   Kazuyama, Yukimasa ^d   Machida, Utako ^a   Tanaka, Yuji ^a   Kanda, Yoshinobu ^a   Kashima, Takeshi ^a   Yamazaki, Yasuaki ^b   Hamaki, Tamae ^b   Mori, Shin Ichiro ^c   Akiyama, Hideki ^c   Mutou, Yoshitomo ^b   Sakamaki, Hisashi ^c   Osumi, Kazuoki ^d   Kimura, Satoshi ^a   Hirai, Hisamaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Toranomon Hospital   (United States)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DISEASE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BETA-GLUCANS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCANS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035502916     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323337     Document Type: Article

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